I spent much of last weekend, as I often do this time of year, confining myself to writing and thinking about Rudyard Kipling. This may seem like a pretentious thing to be saying, but if you care about war and peace and justice and life and death, then he is an inescapable subject. The same […]

By John Thompson Remembrance Day isn’t just an event on the calendar. It’s more timeless than that. Our annual Nov. 11 ritual taps into a set of feelings that are thousands of years old. It is a central part of the human condition to wonder about what comes next when we finish the brief span […]

By Shaun Francis Last Friday, I was in Halifax for the True Patriot Love dinner honoring our military families. Approximately 900 people attended the event at the Cunard Centre to recognize the service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform. We were raising money to help military families — to help pay for […]

For the last 19 years, students at Ottawa’s Catholic Notre Dame High School have benefitted from a remarkable community program. Every Remembrance Day, local military veterans would come to the school and set up exhibits that the school’s students would visit throughout the day. The students could interact with Canadian military veterans, and examine military […]

By Ted Barris The morning that 90,000 troops of the People’s Army of North Korea crossed the 38th Parallel to invade South Korea — June 25, 1950 — Don Hibbs was driving the first of his nighttime cab customers across town in Galt, Ont. If he’d turned on his car radio, Hibbs might also have […]